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W>HEN NORTHROP FRYE came to Harvard last year to give the Charles Eliot Norton lecture on poetry, he was greeted with an enthusiasm similar to that granted Christ upon his entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Here, finally, was the redeemer of English Literature and--through some kind of...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Rescuing Romance | 2/11/1976 | See Source »

To us, the reliquary has no such value. We do not know whether the wizened and musty tissue that presumably lies inside the silver casing was ever attached to a historical personage named Mary Magdalene. The odds are against it, since the relic has no written history older than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: RICHES REVEALED | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

BUT BRONSON is more than a statue here. His character moves, and as it moves it appeals on an incredibly basic level. Somewhere in his bunched visage is a wizened hint of sensitivity, and it beams out in this movie of all others because Hill has found an atmosphere to...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Flush Times for Charles Bronson | 10/31/1975 | See Source »

Brekekekex ko-äx ko-äx! As the famed croaking chant, the croaking chorus of the frogs in Aristophanes' comedy, sounds over Yale's Payne-Whitney Gym pool, it signifies that 21 young Yalies and New Haven townies skimpily clad in green fishnet tights are hitting the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Splash-In on the Styx | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Andrea Bradford's voice is the finest of the whole production and she sings the strongest numbers, "No Crystal Stair," and "A Happy Tomorrow," although the latter song is marred by a cheap-sounding organ background, a problem at several points during the play. Robert Honeysucker is the wizened Old...

Author: By Lawton F. Grant, | Title: The Dream of Harlem | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

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